Wacken Open Air meets Gimme Radio!

The Wacken Open Air proudly announced that they have teamed up with gimmeradio.com the world’s first 24/7 metal-focused music service to deliver some Wacken spirit to all metalheads worldwide!

Every Saturday at 9pm CET (with re-runs on every Tuesday at 3pm CET) Wacken Open Air will be presenting two alternating shows for Gimme Radio. The first show is The Wacken Radio Hour, which will showcase artists, exclusive interviews, and even spotlights the people who work behind the scenes of the festival.

The second show will be the W:O:A Metal Battle On Air special. 40 countries are taking part in Wacken's annual Metal Battle and this show will be a place where their music will be presented with one country featured per episode.

Wacken co-founder Thomas Jensen states about the partnership: “Heavy metal will always come first at Wacken. We are happy to be on board with such a unique platform as Gimme Radio as they create a lot of quality content that goes hand in hand with the type of one-of-a-kind content that Wacken Open Air is happy to provide to metal fans worldwide.”

Gimme Radio CEO, Tyler Lenane, adds “Gimme Radio is all about bringing the best metal programming to the passionate metal head. Partnering with Wacken Open Air was a no brainer for our organization, and we are stoked to see how the partnership evolves down the line."

Premiering tomorrow, Saturday, March 9th, at 9pm CET (with a re-run on Tuesday at 3pm CET) will be The Wacken Radio Hour.Guest on the first episode will be Thomas Jensen, co-founder of the Wacken Open Air, who will play some of his favorite tracks and talk about the history as well as the future of the Wacken Open Air.